Using Ostraca in the Ancient World : : new discoveries and methodologies / / edited by Clementina Caputo and Julia Lougovaya.
Throughout Egypt’s long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them have been and continue to be discovered. This volume highlights some of the me...
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| Superior document: | Materiale Textkulturen ; 32 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2020] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Materiale Textkulturen ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 245 pages) :; illustrations (chiefly colour); digital file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- I. Documentation and Interpretation of Ostraca as Archaeological Objects
- Papyri and Ostraca as Archaeological Objects: The Importance of Context
- Pottery Sherds for Writing: An Overview of the Practice
- Photography of Papyri and Ostraca
- II. Cultural Contexts and Practices
- The Survival of Pharaonic Ostraca: Coincidence or Meaningful Patterns?
- Greek Literary Ostraca Revisited
- III. Ostraca in Context: Case Studies
- Hi Aḥuṭab: Aramaic Letter Ostraca from Elephantine
- Ostraca and Tituli Picti of Samut North and Bi’r Samut (Eastern Desert of Egypt): Some Reflections on Find Location
- Demotic Ostraca and Their Use in Egyptian Temple Context from the Greco-Roman Period: Soknopaiou Nesos and Hut-Repit
- “Forgive Me, Because I Could Not Find Papyrus”: The Use and Distribution of Ostraca in Late Antique Western Thebes
- Contributors
- Indices